Tag Archives: Romanticism

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I want to maintain that after a hundred years of romanticism, we are in for a classical revival, and that the particular weapon of this new classical spirit, when it works in verse, will be fancy.[1] And in this I imply the superiority of fancy—not superior generally or absolutely, for that would be obvious nonsense, but superior in the sense that we use the word good in empirical ethics—good for something, superior for something. Read more …

Published: February 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, classicism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, literary criticism, literature, North American New Right, reprints, T. E. Hulme, Victor Hugo | Comments closed

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Classical Modernism & the Art of the Radical Right

Jonathan Bowden

Wyndham Lewis, “Red Duet,” 1914

1,095 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Heat. Read more …

Published: January 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alistair Hamilton, Arno Breker, art criticism, articles, classicism, fascism, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jonathan Bowden, modernism, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Salvador Dalí, surrealism, T. E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis | Comments closed

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T. S. Eliot, Part 1

Kerry Bolton

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938

5,352 words

Part 1 of 2

World War I brought to a climax a cultural crisis in Western Civilization that had been proceeding for centuries, when, in the Spenglerian sense, Money overwhelmed Tradition,[1] or, to resort even to Karl Marx, the bourgeoisie supplanted the aristocracy.[2] Industrialization accentuated the process of commercialization, with its concomitant urbanization and the disruption of organic bonds and social cohesion, which has thrown societies into a state of perpetual flux, with culture reflecting that condition. Read more …

Published: September 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, Charles Maurras, Christianity, classicism, conservatism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Georges Sorel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kerry Bolton, literary criticism, literature, modernism, monarchism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, poetry, Social Credit, socialism, syndicalism, T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Nacionalismo & Racialismo na Filosofia Alemã:
Fichte, Hegel & os Românticos

Derek Hawthorne

3,733 words

English original here

1 – Fichte e o Destino da Nação Alemã

J. G. Fichte (1762-1814), o primeiro dos grandes idealistas alemães pós-kantianos, é uma figura importante na ascensão do nacionalismo alemão – e tem sido muitas vezes acusado de ser um dos pais fundadores do Nacional-Socialismo.

Published: August 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Hawthorne, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, Germany, Immanuel Kant, in Portuguese, in translation, J. G. Fichte, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Martin Heidegger, nationalism, philosophy, race, reprints, the Counter-Enlightenment | Comments closed

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Nationalism & Racialism in German Philosophy:
Fichte, Hegel, & the Romantics

Derek Hawthorne

Philipp Veit, “Germania,” 1848

4,354 words

Portuguese translation here

1. Fichte and the Destiny of the German Nation

J. G. Fichte (1762–1814), the first of the great post-Kantian German Idealists, is an important figure in the rise of German nationalism – and has often been accused of being one of the founding fathers of National Socialism.

Published: August 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Hawthorne, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, Germany, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, nationalism, Novalis, originals, philosophy, race, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Úvahy o estetické a kulturní postavě dandyho, část 2

Robert Steuckers

Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

1,772 words

English original here

Poslání umělce podle Charlese Baudelaira

Pro dandyho je nezbytné do současného barbarismu vetknout trochu estetiky. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Art Nouveau, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, Ernst Junger, in Czech, in translation, Jugendstil, Julius Evola, liberal education, North American New Right, Oscar Wilde, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, reprints, Robert Steuckers, Stefan George, the Pre-Raphaelites, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 2

Robert Steuckers

Ludwig Fahrenkrog, “The Holy Fire”

1,311 words

Part 2 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Paganism of Hamsun and Lawrence

If Hamsun and Lawrence carry out their desire to return to a natural ontology by rejecting rationalist intellectualism, this also implies an in-depth contestation of the Christian message. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akos Doma, alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Emanuele Severino, Friedrich Nietzsche, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Knut Hamsun, literature, Martin Heidegger, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | Comments closed

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Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 1

Robert Steuckers

Knut Hamsun

2,378 words

Part 1 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Hungarian philologist Akos Doma, educated in Germany and the United States, has published a work of literary interpretation comparing the works of Knut Hamsun and D. H. Lawrence: Read more …

Published: July 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akos Doma, alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Schiller, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Knut Hamsun, literature, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | Comments closed

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Elgar the European

Greg Johnson

1,501 words

Edward Elgar (June 2, 1857–February 23, 1934) was a leading figure in the last generation of European Romantic composers, which includes Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943).

Published: April 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical music, Edward Elgar, Greg Johnson, music reviews, nationalism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part II

Robert Steuckers

Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867

1,790 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 3. Part I: here

Czech translation here

The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire

Published: August 12, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Art Nouveau, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, Ernst Junger, Henry de Montherlant, homosexuality, Jugendstil, Julius Evola, liberal education, manliness, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Oscar Wilde, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Robert Steuckers, Stefan George, the Pre-Raphaelites, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Nietzsche & His Century

Oswald Spengler

5,404 words

An address delivered on October 15, 1924, Nietzsche’s eightieth birthday, at the Nietzsche Archive, Weimar

Looking back at the nineteenth century and letting its great men pass before the mind’s eye, we can observe an amazing thing about the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche, something that was hardly noticeable in his own time. Read more …